Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-05-19
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Acarsed Thing.

Inc Speaker WAS u lHau NHou
greatly respected, and for whose friend-
ship, now a thing of memory, thank
God. remember that promised that
man to assail the curse Of strong drink
at all proper times and seasons, as long
as | welded u pen. a VOW to the dead
should be a sacred thing. How it grew
upon this man, his hatred for the traffic
in Intoxicating liquors. 1t is singular
that all temperance workers tend to be-
come rabid. they grow in zeal for
their cause as no other sectaries do, be-
coming hot. hotter, hottest. our real
temperance reformer, who once gives
himself to the idea, becomes . /" fana-
TIC" Did you ever think that way?
He would rather Child of his would
die than marry IL tippler. He breaks
friendship with you if you are even
moderate drinker. He dissolves a
partnership to get rid of an associate
who has begun to drink; and he moves
heaven and earth to eject an agent, or
a manager, or even a fellow-director in
any corporation in which he has inter-
est. How he ravesl He leaves his old
grocer because the man sells drink on
the sly; and the temperance reformer,
once in full tilt, will walk five blocks
to avoid trading with a druggist who
has begun to do better business with
"dashed" soda water than with quinine.
How mad he is! lie foams against the
n tor
he thinks, they are not sufficiently
| active in the good cause of anti-rum.
| He becomes unreasonable" a 'bore."
an "offense against good taste," and
| many people "cannot bear him at
ALL" as heis everlastingly inveighing
against the curse of curses. Did you
ever wonder whyp
This is why: Because no one knows
the hell that rum is making on this
earth till he stops and looks into it.
The most of lis confess that the inordi-
nate use of strong drink is a great evil;
but we are too busy to think of it
further. and we pass on. But let a
man or woman once become as inter-
| eSbtl, ttlu SuCll IL VI ohSlClOA
arms reach up their skinny fingers
| clutching for help! Such a sea of wild
| eyes flash out OF the midnight of horror
beneath us, appealing for help! Such a
wall. such chorus, such diapason of
groans salute the reformer, all because
he is u reformer, and new to the busi-
ness. :. Help me! Have mercy on mel"
Gentle reader, these are the voices and
sights that make men fanatics. You
know nothing of them. They do not
/ appeal to you, for you have not the
reputation of being reformer. The
drunken miaerables hide from you.
The poisoned rats burrow out of sight.
But he who has once turned an inquir-
ing and kindly face towards the VIC
tins of drink is besieged with crowd
ing horrors.
And is it not the curse of all curses?
Is there any i'll that flesh is subject to
which rum cannot bring? Name q
disease which drink does not call at
command, as chief devil calls his
under-devils. Psychologists say there
is not one. Name a calamity which
drink cannot bring upon us. 1t can
cause us to forfeit our employment.
1t can destroy our savings. 1t can
break up the closest friendship. 1t can
rob us of the respect of all decent men.
1t can drive us out of our native viii
lage, out of our home, out of the world.
A monopoly of miseries is rum; and
the lesser miseries never dare break
the combination. 1t is close corpora
s tion OF woes; and no good thing is ever
. admitted to the hellish firm. Is is an
industry of sorrows which never shuts
down to repair even a wheel, which
y even drives its machinery faster on
!, Sundays and holidays and nights than
: during proper working hours: which,
. alas, in hardest times is behind In filling
. :, orders. Orders for pain and shame; or
ders for beggars and criminals; orders
for widows and orphans and insane;
orders from hell.
n Every distillery should bear the
: sign: "The Curse Factory" On its
= great carts about town should be writ
ten: "Quarrels brewed at short notice.
81 On advertisements should be printed:
"Any and all kinds of mischief furn-
ished at the lowest price, and warranted
81 to last a lifetime" These splendid
vehicles, drawn by the noblest horses
in the streets, grind a little child to a
,e mangled, bloody mass at every corner
r. But yet they are permitted to run.
il, They dismember woman of all her
Il. H. happiness on every block. Yet they
are permitted to run-because the
quivering. palpitating victims are not
n n, seen. Yet some OF us see these things
as they are.
k. We read the proud name of the
he brewer, and contrast the fine house in
ne,. which he lives with the novels which
u his trade has made; and wonder what
the common Father will say at last to
these wicked brothers who have painted
their dwellings with the blood of theil
of brothers. For there cometh day
"a when the curse of all curses shall itself
~ be cursed by Him who has power to
.a1 curse, and none can bless. Even now
lis is it not written: "Cursed be he who
putteth the cup to his brothers lips2-
Rev. Emory j. Haynes, d. d., in Gale
en- Rule.